I Who'll Lead The NAACP?
Once present NAACP head Patrick Hairston leaves i
post in December* who will be his successor *? Loc
residents express their views and we offer some editorial
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Staff Writer * businesswoman and an
A woman of many explorer who welcomes
roles, many moods and new challenges and
many faces: "tfiat's what ideas.
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woman, a little over five- and television movies
feet-four with emerald" and commercials. But
eyes and an ageless face, Hauser says blacks need
then it's Fay Hauser, to be owners and conWinston-Salem
native trollers as well as per
who has found a degree formers in the film inof
stardom in dustry. "The way the pie
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By Althea Bradford
Staff Writer
After serving as president of the Winston-Salem chapter
of the NAACP for six years, Patrick Hairston says he has
become urea. Citing ms disillusionment witn winstonSalem's
lack of support for the organization, Hairston
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his current term expires. According to Michael Curry,
education chairman for the NAACP, nominations for
the position will probably be considered in the fall.
To find out if local residents have particular favorites to
succeed Hairston, the Chronicle asked them recently,
"Who do you think would be a good successor to Patrick
Hairston when he steps down as president of the local
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By Ruthell Howard
Staff Writer
John E. Jacob, national president of the Urban
League, stressed the importance of jobs, especially for
youth, and proposed a national $100-million jobs and
training program, which he compared to President
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, at the four-dav an
nual 1982 National Urban League Conference held
recently in Los Angeles.
SeveraJ local representatives attended the conference,
including Thomas Elijah, executive director of the
Winston-Salem Urban League.
Commenting on the conference after returning to
Winston-Salem earlier this week, Elijah said the Urban
League seeks to address unemployment from "every
angle possible, and that would mean government and
private agencies. In terms of how realistic it is, we don't
know, but we know there is a need and we operate based
on needs"
Elijah stressed that "putting people out of work is not
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fourths of the roles are Oriental or a Spanish
for white men. Of what's ,woman, .then you still
left, I think that most of rarely have a chance to
it's white women and get it."
blaclc men who get more
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tion, Hauser says many
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character breakdown infrequently and aren't
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character's age, height or have. ''Because most
weight. "But if it doesn't jobs are predicated onsay
black on there, they jobs you had
will not send you for it, before," she says, "there
which is the first pro- is limited advancement
blem," she says. "And if for blacks.
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Bishop T.R. Rice: "I think that Bishop Sylvester
Johnson would. That's the one that I would like to see."
Deborah Edwards: "I'd like to see him (Hairston) stay
if he would. I don't think anybody could fill his shoes/'
Gerald Murray: "I would say Andrew Young because
he has done a lot of things for blacks. Atlanta is pretty
strong now. He's doing a good job in Atlanta."
Tom Johnson: "Jim Hansley, who is president of
Vanguard Investment Co. Jim is a very direct, concise
and aggressive person. That's the kind of person they
need. He's a very no-nonsense person."
Melissa Adams: "I don't know. I think maybe Larry
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the way to get the economy going," and that tliere are
middle-class as well as poor people who are being affected
by the sagging economy.
Jacob, during the convention, outlined four crucial
problem areas in the black community, Elijah said, which
included teen-age pregnancy, female-headed households,
crime and citizenship education. "He viewed teen-age
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single analysis finds those two factors increase
vulnerability to poverty," Elijah said.
"When children have children, both mother and child
are vulnerable," Jacob said to the representatives. He added
that pregnancy is the number one reason for school
dropouts and that early motherhood can mean poor
health for the mother and fter baby.
Elijah said the areas of concern Jacob mentioned during
the conference will give individual chapters guidance
in deciding what problems to address. "There are a lot of
things going on in the community that deal with teen-age
pregnancy," Elijah said, "and we're looking at programs
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, they need to produce Reynolds Foundation to
riticize the black shows establish a Neighborhood
the spectrum of black Justice Center. The foundation
is offering $500,000 in
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committees that coordinate
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, dealing with crime and is
Hauser says she is par- especially interested in proticularly
angered by the posals that offer restitutuon
treatment of blacks on either through special work
Johnny, i Carson's. ? projects or community ser"Tonight
Show" and vice, youth rehabilitation
that this ts aft indicator and job programs for ofof
the attitudes in the in- fendeTs^on probation.
dustry. .
"Unless you're Diana The Crime Task Force,
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says, "you can't sit establishing a
down and talk with "Neighborhood-Justh:^
Johnny Carson." Center after former Atlanta
Hauser contends that May?r Maynard Jackson
many black entertainers recommended it while at-who
hsve performed on tendin? a Task Force crime
the show don't bave the Prevention workshop in
opportunity to sit and May and after seein? how
discuss issues and that effectively thg, program
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before deciding whether we want to get in the market."
He said the organization does not wish to duplicate programs
that are already fulfilling the need.
Jacob also said that alienation and community
disintegration must be reversed if blacks are to take their
rightful place in society. "Many of our communities are
paralyzed by crime and the fear of crime," he added.
"Unless crime and the fear of crime are reduced, business
and economic opportunities will continue to leave our
communities."
He also emphasized the need for blacks to register and
vote, saying that "community efforts to maximize voter
registration and voter turnout can convince politicians
t^at blacks do matter."
Representatives at the convention from the Reagan
Administration included William French Smith, attorney
general; Clarence Pendleton, director of the U.S. Civil
Rights Commission, and Melvin Bradley, special assistant
to the president for policy development.
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as something that has not .neighborhood crime.
been tried here in Winston- Smith says she^hopes-the
Salem," says Norma Smith, program will have a strong
chairperson of the Crime inpact on the community
Task Force. "I think it can and will help to organize
work. The police depart- residents in the East ward.
ment was crazy about it. The Neighborhood
We want to provide an Justice Center would be
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get justice in the courts; you organize the East Ward.
get the law. The Task Force also seeks
"We want to provide an to establish a strong comavenue
where parties can munity watch system in the
compromise and work out community.
"We want to provide an alternative to the
courts, because you don 7 always get justice in
the courts. You get the law."
Norma Smith
Chairperson,East Winston
Crime Task Force
an agreeable solution for "We're trying to get the
both parties." neighborhood organized,"
According to the pro- Smith says, "and to get
posal, the Neighborhood people to believe the idea
Justice Center would ad- that they are their brother's
dress three areas: keeper and we hope the proneighborhood?pioblerns
gram will help piumule that
such as property disputes or idea more."
vandalism; juvenile pro- In a newsletter the Task
blems, such as fights or Force js mailing to East
disturbances, and domestic Ward residents, citizens are
problems; urgechRy help preventrcrime ^?
Mediation would be car- in the area. Smith says the
ried out by a staff of 17 organization has solicited
trained volunteers who two or three . dozen
would report to a board of volunteers to be block capdirectors.
The program tains, but added there is a
would focus first on the need for many more.
East Ward, an area where Whether the Z. Smith
the Task Force is concerned Reynolds Foundation will
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Joseph Lewis Jr. Deborah Edwards
aining Program
Workshops were held on topics such as mental health,
crime, financing public education, drugs and promoting
mathematics, engineering and scientific achievements for
minority students.
"1 agree with these issues," Elijah said, "because we
are talking about young people. We are talking about the
future of our youngsters."
Elijah also stressed that the national'theme for the
organization is "Everybody deserves a chance to make it
on their own."
Also speaking at the convention were Tom Bradley,
mayor of Los Angeles; Charles S. Robb, governor of
Virginia; the Rev. Benjamin Hooks, executive director ot
the NAACP; the Rev. Jesse Jackson, of Operation
PUSH, and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young.
Winston-Salem representatives included Harvey Kennedy,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scoggin, Irene Hairston,
George Hill, Anne MacLeod, Sandra Pennington, Ricky
Wilson, Carmen Elijah and Lisa Coleman.
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